Word: test
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...theoretical shooting began last week in Exercise Sweetbriar, .the joint Canadian-U.S. maneuvers to test North America's defenses against invasion from the Arctic. Across the mile-wide Donjek River, 170 miles south of Dawson, Allied troops fought off a mock invader driving into Canada from Alaska...
Exercise Sweetbriar was a test to determine whether, in spite of all the known difficulties, men & machines could fight a war in the Arctic. A Canadian combat team was sent north from Whitehorse in the Yukon. An "aggressor force" of U.S. troops from the Alaska Command headed south. Later, a U.S. combat team, brought in from Colorado, went up the highway to reinforce the Canadian defenders. Referees ordered attacks, withdrawals and flanking movements and directed operations of U.S. and Canadian aircraft...
Valuable Lesson. It was a revolutionary discovery. Back at NBC he put his new theories to the test on a dawn-till-breakfast show that soon built up a fanatic following among Washington's thousands of live-alone Government girls. Encouraged, Godfrey began applying the same personal approach to his commercials ("Whew!" he would say after reading some copywriter's purple prose advertising lace undies). Everybody was outraged but his listeners, and when the listeners hurried to buy, sponsors and radiomen quickly calmed down. Godfrey had learned a lesson he has never forgotten: "They don't care...
British planemakers, already well ahead of the U.S. in commercial jet transports, are even farther ahead in turbo-prop planes (propellers driven by gas turbines). They have several test planes flying while the U.S. has none, although airmen expect the turboprops to be the short-range plane of the future as well as the intermediate aircraft between current reciprocating-engine planes and jet liners. Last week General Motors announced that it was finally putting the U.S. into the race to develop a turbo-prop transport...
...hopes to have the replacement job done by summer, but thinks it will need two or three years of test flying to iron out the bugs. Thus, the U.S. may not cut down Britain's lead very much. By that time, Britain expects to have its turboprops and jet liners in commercial operation...